"on the role of Dracula in ""Count Dracula"", a 1970 Spanish-Italian-German coproduction notable for its adherence to the plot of the original novel. Playing the part of Renfield in that version was Klaus Kinski, who later played Dracula himself in 1979's ""Nosferatu the Vampyre"". In 1977, the BBC made ""Count Dracula"", a 155-minute adaptation for television starring Louis Jourdan. Later film adaptations include John Badham's 1979 ""Dracula"", starring Frank Langella and inspired by the 1977 Broadway revival of the Deane/Hamilton play, and Francis Ford Coppola's 1992 ""Bram Stoker's Dracula"", starring Gary Oldman. The character of Count Dracula has remained popular"
"Count Alucard (character) Count Alucard is a fictional character created by American filmmakers Robert and Curt Siodmak for their 1943 horror film ""Son of Dracula"". Like his father Count Dracula, Alucard is a vampire, a mythological creature that lives by sucking the life force from living creatures. Alucard was first performed by Lon Chaney Jr. in ""Son of Dracula"" and has since been featured in other movies, comics, television shows, video games and other forms of media. The name ""Alucard"" is ""Dracula"" spelled backwards. Alucard was created by Universal Studios' Robert Siodmak and his brother Curt for their 1943 film"
"Bela Lugosi Béla Ferenc Dezső Blaskó (; 20 October 1882 – 16 August 1956), better known as Bela Lugosi (; ), was a Hungarian-American actor famous for portraying Count Dracula in the 1931 film and for his roles in other horror films. After playing small parts on the stage in his native Hungary, Lugosi got his first role in a film in 1917. He had to leave the country after the failed Hungarian Communist Revolution of 1919. He acted in several films in Weimar Germany before arriving in the United States as a seaman on a merchant ship. In 1927,"
"Ottomar Rodolphe Vlad Dracula Prince Kretzulesco Ottomar Rodolphe Vlad Dracula Prinz Kretzulesco, born Ottomar Berbig (October 10, 1940 – November 2007) was a flamboyant German socialite who achieved fame through a claim of adopted lineage from Vlad Dracula, the inspiration for Count Dracula. Berbig was an antiques dealer in West Berlin in 1978 when an elderly woman entered his store wanting to sell heirlooms. The woman was Romanian princess Catherine Caradja (also known as Princess Caradja-Kretzulesco), who claimed to be a blood relative of Vlad Dracula. The two became friends, and the princess was keen to adopt Berbig as her"
"Bram Stoker's Dracula Bram Stoker's Dracula is a 1992 American gothic horror film directed and produced by Francis Ford Coppola, based on the novel ""Dracula"" by Bram Stoker. It stars Gary Oldman as Count Dracula, Winona Ryder as Mina Harker, Anthony Hopkins as Professor Abraham Van Helsing, and Keanu Reeves as Jonathan Harker. ""Dracula"" grossed $215 million on a $40 million budget. Rotten Tomatoes's consensus cited ""some terrific performances"", but Reeves' work has been widely criticized. It was nominated for four Academy Awards and won three for Best Costume Design, Best Sound Editing, and Best Makeup. Its score was composed"
"Christopher Lee Sir Christopher Frank Carandini Lee (27 May 1922 – 7 June 2015) was an English actor, singer, military officer, and author. With a career spanning nearly 70 years, Lee was well known for portraying villains and became best known for his role as Count Dracula in a sequence of Hammer Horror films, a typecasting situation he always lamented. His other film roles include Francisco Scaramanga in the James Bond film ""The Man with the Golden Gun"" (1974), Saruman in ""The Lord of the Rings"" film trilogy (2001–2003) and ""The Hobbit"" film trilogy (2012–2014), and Count Dooku in the"
"had initially intended to play the role of the count himself. When the play crossed the Atlantic in 1927, the role of Dracula was taken by the then-unknown Hungarian actor Béla Lugosi. For its US debut, Dracula was rewritten by the American playwright John L. Balderston. The show ran for a year on Broadway and for two more years on tour, breaking all previous records for any show put on tour in the United States. It is the Deane/Balderston interpretation upon which the classic Tod Browning film ""Dracula"" (1931) was based. Hamilton Deane Hamilton Deane (1880–1958) was an Irish actor,"
"Dracula (Dell Comics) Dracula is a superhero comic book series published by Dell Comics, based on the literary and movie character Count Dracula. The book was part of a line of three superhero comics based on the Universal Monsters characters; the other two were ""Frankenstein"" and ""Werewolf"". ""Dracula"" lasted 3 issues from 1966 through 1967, numbered 2 through 4. (#1, published in 1962, was an adaptation of the 1931 film). In 1972-73, Dell reprinted the series, numbering them #6-8 (the reason for skipping issue #5 is unknown). Dracula is a modern-day direct descendant of the original Count Dracula now working"
"Dracula (1931 English-language film) Dracula is a 1931 American pre-Code vampire-horror film directed by Tod Browning and starring Bela Lugosi as Count Dracula. Produced by Universal, the screenplay is based on the 1924 stage play ""Dracula"" by Hamilton Deane and John L. Balderston, which in turn is loosely based on the novel ""Dracula"" by Bram Stoker. Renfield (Dwight Frye) is a solicitor traveling to Count Dracula's (Bela Lugosi) castle in Transylvania on a business matter. The people in the local village fear that vampires inhabit the castle and warn Renfield not to go there. Renfield refuses to stay at the"
"Bram Stoker Abraham ""Bram"" Stoker (8 November 1847 – 20 April 1912) was an Irish author, best known today for his 1897 Gothic novel ""Dracula"". During his lifetime, he was better known as the personal assistant of actor Sir Henry Irving and business manager of the Lyceum Theatre in London, which Irving owned. Stoker was born on 8 November 1847 at 15 Marino Crescent, Clontarf, on the northside of Dublin, Ireland. His parents were Abraham Stoker (1799–1876) from Dublin and Charlotte Mathilda Blake Thornley (1818–1901), who was raised in County Sligo. Stoker was the third of seven children, the eldest"
"Dracula (1958 film) Dracula is a 1958 British horror film directed by Terence Fisher and written by Jimmy Sangster based on Bram Stoker's novel of the same name. The first in the series of Hammer Horror films starring Christopher Lee as Count Dracula, this original also features Peter Cushing as Doctor Van Helsing, along with Michael Gough, Melissa Stribling, Carol Marsh, and John Van Eyssen. In the U.S. the film was retitled Horror of Dracula to avoid confusion with the earlier ""Dracula"" (1931) starring Bela Lugosi, and the film was released in the U.S. in 1958 on a double feature"
"Kinks and written by their lead vocalist and principal songwriter, Ray Davies. It appeared on their 1972 album ""Everybody's in Show-Biz"". A fan of the occult, Lugosi's haunted mirror is on display at Zak Bagans' haunted museum in Las Vegas, Nevada. Bela Lugosi Béla Ferenc Dezső Blaskó (; 20 October 1882 – 16 August 1956), better known as Bela Lugosi (; ), was a Hungarian-American actor famous for portraying Count Dracula in the 1931 film and for his roles in other horror films. After playing small parts on the stage in his native Hungary, Lugosi got his first role in"
"Dances, are used to highlight the high emotions driving the story. Drawn directly from the Bram Stoker novel ""Dracula"", Nixon's ballet includes vivid imaginings of the blood transfusions given desperately to Dracula's victim Lucy and scenes in the insane asylum with frenetic dancing by the characters of Dr. Seward and Renfield. The original Dracula, Jimmy Orrante, and Nixon created a Count Dracula full of contradictions with more human longings than the Stoker character. Often performed separately for dance exhibitions and competitions, a pas de deux between Dracula and Mina draws the two into an equal partnership, including moves with the"
"Bram Stoker's Dracula (1973 film) Dracula is a 1973 British television film adaptation of Bram Stoker's 1897 novel ""Dracula"" written by Richard Matheson and directed by ""Dark Shadows"" creator Dan Curtis, with Jack Palance in the title role. It was the second collaboration for Curtis and Palance after the 1968 TV film ""The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde"". ""Bistritz, Hungary May 1897"": natives in Transylvania seem afraid when they learn solicitor Jonathan Harker is going to Castle Dracula. Jonathan finds the Count abrupt and impatient to get things done. Dracula reacts very strongly to a photograph of"
"Dracula. The decade saw several more vampire films, most notably ""Dracula's Daughter"" in 1936. The legend of the vampire continued through the film industry when Dracula was reincarnated in the pertinent Hammer Horror series of films, starring Christopher Lee as the Count. The successful 1958 ""Dracula"" starring Lee was followed by seven sequels. Lee returned as Dracula in all but two of these and became well known in the role. By the 1970s, vampires in films had diversified with works such as ""Count Yorga, Vampire"" (1970), an African Count in 1972's ""Blacula"", the BBC's ""Count Dracula"" featuring French actor Louis"
"""Dracula"" (1897) has been the definitive description of the vampire in popular fiction for the last century. Its portrayal of vampirism as a disease (contagious demonic possession), with its undertones of sex, blood, and death, struck a chord in a Victorian Britain where tuberculosis and syphilis were common. The character of Count Dracula is based upon Vlad Dracula III (Vlad the Impaler), also known as Vlad Ţepeş', a notorious 15th-century Wallachian (Romanian) warlord, or Voivode. Unlike the historical personage, however, Stoker located his Count Dracula in a castle near the Borgo Pass in Transylvania, and ascribed to that area the"
"Harker and Seward's efforts. Differences between novel and adaptation: Dracula (Mystery and Imagination) ""Dracula"" is a video-taped television play adaptation of Bram Stoker's novel ""Dracula"", part of the series ""Mystery and Imagination"" (Season 4, Episode 3). Denholm Elliott (who later co-starred with fellow-Dracula Jack Palance in ""The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde"") played Count Dracula with Susan George as Lucy Weston (another alumn of another version of ""Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde""). The drama begins in an asylum in Whitby, England. A mysterious patient escapes from his cell and intrudes upon a small party hosted by Dr."
"him that the purchaser of a house in Piccadilly, London is ""a foreign nobleman, Count De Ville"". Count De Ville, however, proves to be an alias for Count Dracula himself. It is also believed that the inspiration for the name began in 1939 when Dodie Smith purchased a new Rolls-Royce 25/30 ""Sedanca de Ville"" motorcar in which she and her pet Dalmatian ""Pongo"" frequently travelled, which also formed the basis of the cartoon imagery of Cruella's own motorcar. In the original story, Cruella is depicted as a pampered and glamorous London heiress who knows the owner of the Dalmatian puppies"
"Dracula (1996 play) Dracula is an adaptation, first published in 1996, by American playwright Steven Dietz of Bram Stoker's novel by the same name. Though it has never run on Broadway, the author lists it among his most financially successful works, and it is frequently performed near Halloween in regional and community theaters. Closely following the plot of the novel, the play chronicles Count Dracula's journey to England, his stalking of two young women, and his pursuit and eventual defeat by the heroines' suitors and their associates. While all of Stoker's major plot points are present in Dietz's adaptation, they"
"Jonathan Harker Jonathan Harker is a fictional character and one of the main protagonists of Bram Stoker's 1897 Gothic horror novel ""Dracula"". His journey to Transylvania and encounter with the vampire Count Dracula and his Brides at Castle Dracula constitutes the dramatic opening scenes in the novel and most of the film adaptations. Stoker appropriated the surname from his friend Joseph Cunningham Harker (1855-1920), a set designer at the Lyceum Theatre and father of actor William Gordon Harker (1885-1967) as well as great-grandfather of actress Polly Adams, whose actress-daughters Susannah Harker and Caroline Harker adopted the Harker surname for their"
"The Count (video game) The Count is a text-based adventure program written by Scott Adams and published by Adventure International. The player character has been sent to defeat the vampire Count Dracula by the local Transylvanian villagers, and must obtain and use items from around the vampire's castle in order to defeat him. Players move from location to location, picking up any objects found and using them somewhere else to solve puzzles. The interface is text-based; commands took the form of verb and noun, e.g. ""Climb Tree"". Movement from location to location was limited to North, South, East, West, Up"
"died in Königs Wusterhausen of a brain tumor during the weekend of November 17–18, 2007. His son and heir, Ottomar Dracula Junior or 'Otti', celebrated his first birthday in December 2007. Ottomar Rodolphe Vlad Dracula Prince Kretzulesco Ottomar Rodolphe Vlad Dracula Prinz Kretzulesco, born Ottomar Berbig (October 10, 1940 – November 2007) was a flamboyant German socialite who achieved fame through a claim of adopted lineage from Vlad Dracula, the inspiration for Count Dracula. Berbig was an antiques dealer in West Berlin in 1978 when an elderly woman entered his store wanting to sell heirlooms. The woman was Romanian princess"
"strange powers which have become mine to fight against the injustice, corruption, evil and greed which fills this Earth in the hopes that somehow my example will be an example to all men."" Dracula (Dell Comics) Dracula is a superhero comic book series published by Dell Comics, based on the literary and movie character Count Dracula. The book was part of a line of three superhero comics based on the Universal Monsters characters; the other two were ""Frankenstein"" and ""Werewolf"". ""Dracula"" lasted 3 issues from 1966 through 1967, numbered 2 through 4. (#1, published in 1962, was an adaptation of"
"list of ""Hollywood's Most Powerful Vampires"", as well as ""The Guardian""s ""10 best screen vampires"". In honor of Syfy's 25th anniversary in 2017, the channel compiled ""25 greatest"" lists celebrating the last 25 years of all science fiction, fantasy, and horror: Oldman's Dracula was included in ""The 25 Greatest Movie Performances from the Last 25 years"". Bram Stoker's Dracula Bram Stoker's Dracula is a 1992 American gothic horror film directed and produced by Francis Ford Coppola, based on the novel ""Dracula"" by Bram Stoker. It stars Gary Oldman as Count Dracula, Winona Ryder as Mina Harker, Anthony Hopkins as Professor"
"Carradine, Lon Chaney Jr., Christopher Lee, Francis Lederer, Denholm Elliott, Jack Palance, Louis Jourdan, Frank Langella, Klaus Kinski, Gary Oldman, Leslie Nielsen, George Hamilton, David Niven, Charles Macaulay, Keith-Lee Castle, Gerard Butler, Duncan Regehr, Richard Roxburgh, Marc Warren, Rutger Hauer, Stephen Billington, Thomas Kretschmann, Dominic Purcell and Luke Evans. In 2003, Count Dracula, as portrayed by Lugosi in the 1931 film, was named as the 33rd greatest movie villain by the AFI. The character is closely associated with the western cultural archetype of the vampire, and remains a popular Halloween costume. Already in 1958, Cecil Kirtly proposed that Count Dracula"
"The Revenge of Dracula The Revenge of Dracula is a horror novel by British writer Peter Tremayne (pseudonym of Peter Berresford Ellis). It was first published in the United Kingdom in 1978 by Bailey Brothers & Swinfen. The first United States edition was published by Donald M. Grant, Publisher, Inc. in 1978 in an edition of 1,250 copies which were signed by the author and the illustrator, Dan Green. It is the second book in Tremayne's ""Dracula Lives"" trilogy. The novel concerns the story of Count Dracula in England and is set before the events in Bram Stoker's novel ""Dracula""."
"The Revenge of Dracula The Revenge of Dracula is a horror novel by British writer Peter Tremayne (pseudonym of Peter Berresford Ellis). It was first published in the United Kingdom in 1978 by Bailey Brothers & Swinfen. The first United States edition was published by Donald M. Grant, Publisher, Inc. in 1978 in an edition of 1,250 copies which were signed by the author and the illustrator, Dan Green. It is the second book in Tremayne's ""Dracula Lives"" trilogy. The novel concerns the story of Count Dracula in England and is set before the events in Bram Stoker's novel ""Dracula""."
"Dracula (1979 film) Dracula is a 1979 British-American horror film directed by John Badham. The film starred Frank Langella in the title role as well as Laurence Olivier, Donald Pleasence and Kate Nelligan. The film was based on Bram Stoker's novel ""Dracula"" and its 1924 stage adaptation, though much of Stoker's original plot was revised to make the film—which was advertised with the tagline ""A Love Story""—more romantic. The film won the 1979 Saturn Award for Best Horror Film. In Whitby, England in 1913, Count Dracula (Frank Langella) arrives from Transylvania via the ship ""Demeter"" one stormy night. A sickly"
"Years of alcoholism and his business failures likely contributed to his death. Six people were said to have attended his funeral. Horace Liveright Horace Brisbin Liveright (10 December 1883 – 24 September 1933) was an American publisher and stage producer. With Albert Boni, he founded the Modern Library and Boni & Liveright publishers. He published the books of numerous influential American and British authors. Turning to theatre, he produced the successful 1927 Broadway play ""Dracula"", with Béla Lugosi and Edward Van Sloan in the roles they would make famous in the 1931 film by the same name. Liveright was born"
"John Seward John ""Jack"" Seward, M.D. is a fictional character appearing in Bram Stoker's 1897 novel ""Dracula"". Seward is the administrator of an insane asylum not far from Count Dracula's first English home, Carfax. Throughout the novel, Seward conducts ambitious interviews with one of his patients, R. M. Renfield, in order to understand better the nature of life-consuming psychosis. As a psychiatrist, Seward enjoys using the most up-to-date equipment, including using a recording phonograph to record his interviews with his patients and his own notes. Several chapters of the novel consist of transcriptions of Seward's phonograph recordings. One of the"
"comedy spoof set in contemporary New York City starring George Hamilton as the Count. ""Nosferatu the Vampyre"" (1979) is a remake of the 1922 film, starring Klaus Kinski and directed by Werner Herzog, the vampire is specifically called ""Count Dracula"" rather than ""Graf ""(Count)"" Orlok"". ""Dracula"" has been adapted for TV several times, with some adaptations taking many liberties and others trying to stay faithful more or less to original source. Dracula has even been adapted for children's literature and entertainment, serving as the basis for several vampire cartoon characters over the years, although in the interest of creating child-friendly"
"Louis Jourdan Louis Jourdan (born Louis Robert Gendre; 19 June 1921 – 14 February 2015) was a French film and television actor. He was known for his suave roles in several Hollywood films, including Alfred Hitchcock's ""The Paradine Case"" (1947), ""Letter from an Unknown Woman"" (1948), ""Gigi"" (1958), ""The Best of Everything"" (1959), ""The V.I.P.s"" (1963) and ""Octopussy"" (1983). He played Dracula in the 1977 BBC television production ""Count Dracula"". Jourdan was born Louis Robert Gendre in Marseille, France, in 1921, one of three sons of Yvonne (née Jourdan) and Henry Gendre, a hotel owner. He was educated in France,"
"of Dracula"" #10 (July 1973), written by Marv Wolfman and penciled by Gene Colan. The artist recalled in 2003, ""Marv told me Blade was a black man, and we talked about how he should dress, and how he should look – very heroic looking. That was my input. [...] The bandolier of blades – that was Marv's idea. But, I dressed him up. I put the leather jacket on him and so on"". Colan based the character's features on ""a composite of black actors"" including NFL football star-turned-actor Jim Brown. He initially sported 1970s style afro hair and wielded teak"